Chapter 1319 Skill Points

"Improve strength, is it skill points?" Xiao Shoulianbing was indeed not Baozi. Actually, it wasn't hard to guess this answer. For a max-level character like him, improving his strength was nothing more than two things: skill points and equipment. Before this, Ye Xiu had just asked him about his character's skill points, and conveniently asked him to do these things. Logically, it should be related to skill points.

"Well, first confirm and see how well these quests have been cleared," Ye Xiu didn't deliberately hide it. Although they were a little distant, they were still going to become teammates, and it wouldn't be good to treat them as outsiders everywhere.

"Okay, let me take a look," Xiao Shoulianbing said.

So Ye Xiu and the others were busy rushing to improve their skill points as if they were going to participate in the playoffs like Team Samsara. After Xiao Shoulianbing took a walk around the ordinary areas of the God Domain with this character, he gave Ye Xiu the result. Luckily, Xiao Shoulianbing's account had quite a bit of blank space in terms of quests. He had a chance to obtain 1220 points of skill books from the 1650 points of skill books available from quests. In addition, his character already had a base of 170 points, leaving him 830 points short of the full amount. With 1220 points available, he could try to go for it. If he was lucky, he might not be too far off.

Such an ordinary account really made Chen Guo envious, jealous, and hateful. Her Chasing Haze had cleared too many quests, and in the end, she couldn't earn too much. But Chen Guo happened to be playing a new account in the new server, so she immediately started leaving quests blank. However, the quest guide had already been bought out by Samsara, and Ye Xiu had such worries. When this new Chasing Haze reached level 70, there was a real question of whether the quest guide would still be usable.

Chen Guo was annoyed, only regretting that she hadn't played hard enough in the new server, and this account hadn't leveled up faster.

"Not bad, there are quite a few blank quests. If it's convenient, can you send me this account first, and I'll help you clear these quests?" Ye Xiu said.

"Can't I clear them myself?"

"It requires some special methods," Ye Xiu said.

Xiao Shoulianbing didn't continue to ask, which was what Ye Xiu expected. Because this guy was really shrewd, and he definitely knew how important this thing was, and it was impossible to hand it over casually. Moreover, Xiao Shoulianbing was not only shrewd but also rational. He wouldn't let himself handle this thing. Ye Xiu believed that this guy would understand with the rationality he showed, and wouldn't harbor any resentment because of it. It was just that next, was this guy willing to entrust his account card to him with peace of mind? You have to know that this guy was quite suspicious of whether this was a scam at the beginning. Now Ye Xiu and the others didn't collect any deposit, but as soon as they made a move, they asked people to actively send the account card over. This seemed like a scam too.

"Are you in a hurry?" Xiao Shoulianbing was indeed a little hesitant about this.

"It's best if it's faster," Ye Xiu replied.

"Uh..." Xiao Shoulianbing left a word and didn't say anything for a long time.

The chat was conducted in the team's group chat, and everyone could see it. Except for Baozi and others, they all guessed what Xiao Shoulianbing was worried about. So Wei Chen immediately became impatient: "What are you dawdling about! How much is your account worth? I'll give you a deposit."

Wei, the wealthy lord, was really awesome now, and his confidence was particularly strong.

"Well, in that case, let's deposit 2000!" Xiao Shoulianbing actually opened a number. His account's skill points were indeed not very good, but ordinary players' characters generally had this many skill points. Apart from that, he was a member of the Tyrannical Ambition guild after all. If he was thrown into the pile of players, he wouldn't be too bad.

"Damn, you really dare to ask for it!" Wei Chen was shocked.

"What?" Xiao Shoulianbing asked in confusion.

Wei Chen was speechless. He was using Jianghu habits. Saying he would give a deposit was squeezing. As Wei Chen understood it, the other party would definitely be very embarrassed and unable to accept it at this time, and then happily send the account card over. But now he met someone who wasn't on the same wavelength. The person casually accepted it and actually quoted a price.

But the words had already been said, and even though Wei Chen was awkward, he couldn't tear down his own platform, right? Besides, he now had 20 million; what was 2000 yuan?

"Okay, send an account," Wei Chen said without further ado.

Xiao Shoulianbing was also unambiguous and really sent an account.

"I'll transfer it to you tomorrow." Wei Chen coldly threw another sentence and turned his head to Ye Xiu unhappily: "I don't like this guy."

Not many people would like Xiao Shoulianbing's actions. Chen Guo was also quite unhappy on the side. Although they didn't trust Xiao Shoulianbing and didn't give him the quest guide first, the problem was that the weight of the two was completely different after all. Chen Guo believed that if any of them were in Xiao Shoulianbing's position, they would definitely not be able to do what Xiao Shoulianbing did.

Having had such a change of perspective, Chen Guo was even more relieved to despise Xiao Shoulianbing and quickly had some common language with Wei Chen.

But no matter what, the characters of several people were now prepared. At the same time, day after day, the professional league's playoffs finally arrived at the official start.

Blue Rain, Samsara, Tiny Herb, Tyranny, Misty Rain, Void, Thunderclap, 301. These were the final eight teams, and their final rankings in the regular season. In the playoffs, they would fight each other according to their rankings. 1 vs 8, 2 vs 7, 3 vs 6, 4 vs 5.

Thus, the list of matches for the first round of the playoffs would be Blue Rain vs 301, Samsara vs Thunderclap, Tiny Herb vs Void, and Tyranny vs Misty Rain.

The four matches would be held on four different days to facilitate broadcasting. Any match in the playoffs was not to be missed. The format was a double round-robin system with home and away games, naturally giving each team the opportunity to earn playoff box office revenue fairly.

Thus, the completion of the first round of matches would take eight days. After that, the second round of matches would be held, with the four winning teams continuing for four days to complete four matches. The final, two matches, would also be completed in four days. After all, the home and away game system required traveling between two places, and the time was too tight, and the players wouldn't have enough rest.

The format of the matches was still composed of three parts: individual competition, team arena competition, and team competition. The total points obtained in the home and away games were accumulated, and the one with the higher score won. Because a winner had to be determined, the scoring method in the playoffs was slightly different from the regular season.

Once the playoffs began, Glory players paid close attention, just like on a regular Saturday, because many players put down the game to watch professional matches, which affected the online rate of online games.

On the first day of the match, Blue Rain played 301 away and played steadily, with Blue Rain taking a large lead. With such an advantage, it seemed unrealistic for 301 to return to Blue Rain's home court to try to recover. Blue Rain's performance immediately led to the title of "killing the game." This kind of situation where the game quickly lost suspense appeared in the playoffs, making some stakeholders unhappy. But as the team in the match, who would be polite to establish an advantage early on?

On the second day of the match, Samsara played Thunderclap away, and some people expected to see an upset before the match. After all, Samsara's momentum had been growing stronger and stronger this season. Before the playoffs, it had become the most popular team to win the championship. This naturally made many people unhappy and waited to see them make a fool of themselves. Although Team Thunderclap had no trump cards, with Xiao Shiqin's ability as a tactical master, he was someone who often caused trouble for strong teams.

But this time, everyone was disappointed. Samsara continued their unstoppable momentum after the All-Star Weekend in the regular season in the playoffs, and Thunderclap's home court was almost blown up. This was really surprising. Even if Thunderclap lost, with Xiao Shiqin's strict tactical deployment and command, it was too exaggerated to lose like this.

The people at Happy Internet Cafe paid much more attention to this match than the opening match. Naturally, they wanted to see how Samsara would improve after getting the skill books, and they were not disappointed.

"What a pity. If it weren't for this, Thunderclap wouldn't have lost so badly." As an insider, Ye Xiu revealed the truth in one sentence. Thunderclap's tactician, Xiao Shiqin, usually conducts thorough research on opponents and designs highly targeted tactics to deal with them because of his team's limited strength. That's why Thunderclap is an opponent that even giants don't dare to underestimate. But this time, Samsara suddenly increased their skill points before the playoffs, and this change would definitely make Thunderclap's tactics suffer a big loss. As expected, Thunderclap repeatedly appeared to be unprepared and failed to implement their tactical arrangements properly. In fact, they were indeed not in place, because many of the data and information that Xiao Shiqin had been targeting had become different due to the opponent's skill point improvements.

This point is really difficult to detect for those who don't know the inside story.

And after this match, the only one who could realize this was Xiao Shiqin himself. At the post-match press conference, he said that the opponent had an improvement beyond his expectations. As for what kind of improvement it was, Xiao Shiqin probably already had an idea in his mind, but he didn't declare it at the press conference. Regarding the next round of competition, Xiao Shiqin said some polite words, which can basically be regarded as a perfunctory statement.

The third match, Tiny Herb's away game against Void, was very intense. Void's combination of Double Ghosts was extremely dazzling. In this season after Ye Qiu's retirement, the two had already secured the Best Combination award during the regular season. In the end, Void and last year's champion Tiny Herb played to a draw. However, considering that Void had the advantage of the home map, a draw was considered a failure for them.

However, the most intense match in the first round was Tyranny's away game against Misty Rain on the fourth day. The two teams' match was the longest in the first round. In the end, Misty Rain relied on their home advantage to get more points, which would inevitably make the second round more intense. It was just that Ye Xiu was a little dazed after watching this match.

"Han Wenqing's performance doesn't seem to be very good..." This old opponent that he was most familiar with actually made him feel a little strange in this match.